Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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608. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of notifications made to her Department by coroners with respect to the details of all unidentified human remains within their coronial districts from June 2021 to date; the available number of such notifications for each coronial district in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4736/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Last July, my colleague Minister Humphreys wrote to all coroners, seeking details of all human remains within their district dating back no more than seventy years. All coronial districts have now furnished this information to my Department.

A new question has also been added to the annual statistical returns form this year, as provided for under Section 55 of the Coroners Acts, 1962 – 2020, whereby coroners have been asked to provide details of all unidentified human remains reported to them in the preceding year. The statutory deadline for receipt of these returns is 1 February 2022.

My Department will then arrange for these returns to be collated and shared with the Missing Persons Unit of An Garda Síochána.